[Python-Dev] Ext4 data loss

[Antoine Pitrou]

Steven D'Aprano <steve <at> pearwood.info> writes:
> 
> It depends on what you mean by "temporary".
> 
> Applications like OpenOffice can sometimes recover from an application 
> crash or even a systems crash and give you the opportunity to restore 
> the temporary files that were left lying around.

For such files, you want deterministic naming in order to find them again, so
you won't use the tempfile module...